Make Development Teams Leaner and Improve Time-to-Release In Five Steps
Drive down your delivery time by removing your development inefficiencies and bottlenecks while maintaining high quality.
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Without a holistic and precise view of your application development process:
- Motivations behind your lean transformation may be misunderstood or misrepresented in other areas of your organization.
- Optimization initiatives may introduce downstream or upstream issues which can generate additional bottlenecks.
- Development processes can be shortsighted and structured to only address current short-term needs.
Following well-defined, understood, and standardized lean development guidelines in your process optimization will:
- Focus your development initiatives on a grounded and collaborated set of guiding principles to ensure teams are striving towards the same business and development goals.
- Eliminate the key areas in your process that are driving up wait and execution times, and only implement the practices that strive towards lower delivery time while maintaining high quality.
- Emphasize the continuous improvement of your development teams, processes, and tools so that they always fit with your current context using lessons learned.
Module 1: Conduct a Current State Analysis
The Purpose
- Assess the current state of your development environment.
- Select a pilot project to demonstrate the value of your optimization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Realization of the root causes behind the bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your current development process.
- Valuation of your current development tools.
- Selection of a pilot project that will be used to gather the metrics in order obtain buy-in for wider optimization initiatives.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Assess your readiness to transition to lean development. |
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| 1.2 | Conduct a SWOT analysis and value-stream assessment of your current development process. |
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| 1.3 | Evaluate your development tools. |
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| 1.4 | Select a pilot project. |
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Module 2: Define Your Lean Future State
The Purpose
- Establish your development guiding principles.
- Enhance the versioning and management of your development artifacts.
- Automatically build and continuously integrate your code.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Grounded and well-understood set of guiding principles that are mapped to development tasks and initiatives.
- Version control strategy of development artifacts, including source code, adapted to support lean development.
- A tailored approach to establish the right environment to support automated build, testing, and continuous integration tools.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Assess your alignment to the seven lean principles. |
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| 2.2 | Define your development guiding principles. |
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| 2.3 | Define your version control and source code repository architecture pattern. |
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| 2.4 | See how build automation and continuous integration will fit. |
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| 2.5 | Optimize and align your build process to lean principles. |
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Module 3: Create Your Implementation Roadmap
The Purpose
- Prioritize your optimization initiatives to build an implementation roadmap.
- Identify the stakeholders of your lean transformation.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Phased implementation roadmap that accommodates your current priorities, constraints, and enablers.
- Stakeholder engagement strategy to effectively demonstrate the value of the optimized development environment.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Identify metrics to gauge the success of your lean transformation. |
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| 3.2 | List and prioritize your implementation steps. |
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| 3.3 | Identify the stakeholders of your lean transformation. |
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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